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Monday, May 7, 2012

Homemade Gel Home Air Fresheners

What does your house smell like?!

After having our homes closed up during winter, things can get a little musty and not smell as fresh as they should. So what do we do? Grab that aerosol can of room spray and breath in some unhealthy chemicals?! No thank you!

Instead, make up a couple jars of nice smelling gel air fresheners and set them around the house. No harmful chemicals in these babies!

Yes in deed, homemade home air fresheners made with ingredients that are natural and easy to find. No funny stuff.....no junk..... no kidding!

Bring one cup of water to a boil in a small saucepan. Sprinkle the gelatin over the boiling water and whisk until smooth and all the gelatin is dissolved. Add the salt and the second cup of cold water and whisk. Set aside.

Add the desired amount of essential oil and food coloring, if using, to the jar(s). Quickly pour the hot liquid gelatin over the essential oil and food coloring. Stir until evenly colored.

Allow to cool, uncovered on a heat-proof surface. When it reaches room temperature, place wherever you want a lovely scent. Should last about four weeks if you used enough salt in the recipe to hold off the mold.

Please Note: If you are interested in gifting these it is recommended that you make them up and give them right away. Do not make, wrap and leave sitting for any length of time. The ingredients in the recipe are all natural with no chemical preservatives. The added salt will keep mold away for some time, but eventually turns.

For our home fragrances we chose Rosemary and Lemon

And Orange and Lemon

We love the scent of Rosemary and Lemon alone and together and used those oils in our blue colored home fragrance. Fresh, clean, energetic and happy!

We used Orange and Lemon oil to fragrance our orange home fragrance freshener. The scent of fresh squeezed oranges just makes you feel good!

We reused our little canning jars that we used in March for our Irish Potato Soup. These are the perfect little size and shape. And the color of the gel shows through nicely. Keeping the ring on the jar just makes it look finished and when you want to turn the fragrance "off", just screw the lid on.

Are you thinking about all the different places you could use these home gel fragrances? Let's see, near the cat box, dog bed, oh yes the laundry basket, and than there is the.........

Be inspired. Get creative!

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This is a really neat idea! could it be gifted? I wonder if you put regular lids on the jars if they would keep until you opened them? That way you could give a few away to someone and they could take them out as needed. =D I'd love for you to share at Sweet Sharing Monday! http://saynotsweetanne.com/2012/sweet-sharing-monday-4/ (Up until Midnight Tonight)

I just love these! Such an easy recipe that I think I could even make them myself. Can't wait to try. If you're looking for another place to share your awesome tutorial I'd love to have you link up over at Etcetorize (http://etcetorize.blogspot.ca/2012/05/make-it-great-monday.html). Hope to see you there~

This is such a fabulous alternative to the sprays full of chemicals! I love that you can personalize your fragrance and that it looks adorable in its little cute jar. Thanks so much for sharing this wit h us this week!

I love this idea so much that I'm featuring it at tonight's Make it Great party! I hope you'll stop by to grab a featured button from the sidebar and link up again (http://etcetorize.blogspot.ca/2012/05/make-it-great-monday_13.html)~

I am sorry your recipe turned out runny after a week. I am not sure what caused that to happen. Perhaps you may want to contact the developer of this recipe and inquire. Here is the link.http://www.foodiewithfamily.com/2010/03/17/homemade-essential-oil-air-fresheners/comment-page-1/#comment-209922

I made this a while back and they are wonderful! I put one in my kitchen and one in my bedroom. The kitchen one lasted almost a month before it started to mold but the one in the bedroom was good for about two months. I couldn't believe how incredible they smelled! Thank you so much for sharing.

Is it possible to can them in mason jars like you would jams and jellies so they last will last a lot longer to give as gifts and then just have them pop the seal when they are ready to use them? So they could be made in advance?

What a great idea! I made them last night, so easy to make. I'm not sure if I did something wrong but they stayed watery. So this morning I checked on another site and they suggested that you refrigerate them overnight. I put mine in the fridge this morning, and after work we enjoyed one in the livingroom. As for the scent I put extra drops of essential oil.

If you want, you could make air fresheners using wax instead of gel (no salt needed). They won't have as strong a scent, but they won't turn moldy either. It's just like a scented candle. Optionally, if you add a wick, you can burn it after the scent is too weak to use it as a passive air freshener anymore.

I have use these recipe for home air freshener and use my oils.Work very well. For Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade Essentials oils Check out my site doTerra.myvoffice.com/295665/Yodi CNHPApacheherbs53@gmail.com

This is the first recipe with gelatin I have read! I definitely will try it! It sounds easy task. My husband loves this homemade cleaners which I made at home. I am sure he will love this one , too. Best regards!

If you don't mind your house smelling like spaghetti or pizza sauce (LOL!)... oregano oil has natural anti-bacterial qualities and is used as a food preservative when the flavor is acceptable.

Your gel fresheners would probably last a good while longer. I used oregano oil as a preservative in a natural throat moisturizing spray I devised for myself (my doctor's recommended retail brand had been recalled). My batch of 3 oz bottles stayed fresh for about 4 or 5 months. (And my doctor was impressed with my determination and my recipe's effectiveness.)

Anyway, if you like the smell of oregano, I can recommend using oregano essential oil as a good preservative along with the salt.

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